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Agribusiness

Former Air Force analyst rallies family to redevelop inactive farmland organically

Candace Dantes -
Steady…steady…BANG! A clear shot takes the 2-foot-long cottonmouth snake out as it slithers into murky pond water. The graceful sharpshooter tucks her 9mm handgun back into her hip holster. Continues the Honda ATV dirt trip to a newly organic, 3-acre setup. “Always have to watch my surroundings,” said 28-year-old Ashley Johnson, a former U.S....

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Coastal Georgia grower organizes to close grocery gaps in Savannah neighborhoods

Candace Dantes -
J.B. Brantley strapped the cotton down by wagon. Hauled his cash money crop by mule. One hundred bales of it — the difference between...
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Descendants of Harris County farmers reclaim trashed historic Black cemetery

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Who. Is. Lucy? And why is an unauthorized power line cutting through her burial site? Splintered beer bottles, busted tires and utility truck tracks...
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Black Belt landowners: Clear heirs property titles to profit from COVID relief bill, rural attorney advises

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SOLD! Forty acres of the Louisiana parcel — gone. Just 10 left to will down the generational line. A family meeting in the ’90s...
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Tech farmer uses micro-livestock to restart family traditions on centennial land

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Four goats and a donkey bush hog family history back into view. Undergrowth blanket where 19th- and 20th-century kin folk of the Hicks household...
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7 scarring facts, figures about America’s Black Belt Region people

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It’s a documented tract of high-yielding land. And if you were white, an opportunity for agricultural growth — continuous wealth. America’s Black Belt Region...

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By 2030, almost a quarter of jobs in the Black rural South could become displaced by automation.
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